The world according to Ion B

"Ion Bârlădeanu, în vârstă de 62 de ani, este, probabil, singurul reprezentant autentic al pop art-ului (în timp ce acest curent artistic de origine britanico-americană făcea ravagii prin expozițiile anilor '50-'60, în România se sărbătoreau primii ani de împliniri mărețe) mioritic. În acealași timp, Ion Bârlădeanu nu are casă. Doarme pe o saltea murdară la capătul unei ghene de lângă un bloc de pe Calea Moșilor. În "locuința" sa, Ion adună tot ce consideră a fi valoros din cele aruncate de vecini și astfel ajunge să citească reviste, ziare și cărți, obiecte de care ceilalți par să se despartă fără regrete.

http://www.theworlda...dingtoionb.com/


The Story

Ion Barladeanu is a 62 years old homeless man. He sleeps on a filthy mattress at the end of a garbage chute of a bloc on Calea Mosilor, in exchange for sorting the garbage of the landlords. In ?his home?, Ion recovers what falls next to his mattress, this way ending up reading all the books, magazines and newspapers that the others get rid of.

When he was young, Ion was dreaming about becoming a film director. In the 70\\\'s he started to create collages that he refers to as "my films", but this is a secret he only shares with people intelligent enough to understand and appreciate his works. He doesn\\\'t care about getting rich, he only wants a simple bicycle.

Dan Popescu is a young gallery owner that has accidentally heard about Ion Barladeanu and decided to visit him. He was overwhelmed by more than 800 collages, made by the homeless artist between the ?70s and the ?90s. Those were times when such art manifestations were forbidden and totally inaccessible to Romanians. Ironically, this self-taught man is convinced that he invented collage, since he has never seen this art form before.

At 62, Barladeanu exhibited in Bucharest for the first time 20 political works.

Popescu found him a new house to live and work, but Ion moved after a few months, as he found it very hard to leave his ?home? by the garbage chute. Ion started to work on new collages that, like the old ones, recover the past through the artist?s personal experiences or through his own point of view. One can see traces of his experience as a grave digger or his experience in jail.

Ion visits his hometown and meets his family after 20 years. He had escaped this village, running away from a family that wanted him to become a communist worker, considering him an ?useless crazy guy?.

Edited by Cortex187, 26 November 2010 - 22:25.

As vrea sa-l vad, sper  sa nu fie depresiv.

S-a intalnit cu Angelina Jolie la Paris moshulica si i-a apasat cateva butoane

[ http://www.feeder.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/ion-barladeanu-angelina-jolie.jpg - Pentru incarcare in pagina (embed) Click aici ]

Cateva  imagini:

http://www.guardian....l...564&index=0
http://incepem.blogs...rt-gallery.html

O poveste emotionanta.

Ma asteptam sa fie mai "filosofic" asa.
Oricum, merita vizionat!